Salary Surveys

As part of its ongoing efforts to gain recognition and advancement for system administrators, SAGE annually conducts a System Administrator Salary Survey. The results are tabulated, analyzed, and presented in PDF format. For a year, the PDF is available only to SAGE members and those nonmembers who participated in the survey; after a year, the PDFs become free to all.

CALLING ALL SYSADMINS: Take the 2011 SAGE Salary Survey and enter the drawing to win an iPad 2 The SAGE Survey results give you and your employer a sysadmin-specific tool to compare your situation with others. It covers the entire range of administrators. All experience levels and both the currently employed and the unemployed are asked to respond. It will be open until January 15, 2012. Take the survey today!

• The 2007 SAGE Salary Survey results
• The 2005–2006 SAGE Salary Survey results
• The 2004–2005 SAGE Salary Survey results
• The 2003 SAGE Salary Survey results
• The 2002 SAGE Salary Survey results
  We also have a compendium of the comments about various topics submitted by the respondents. It makes fascinating reading, especially on topics such as outsourcing, and overtime with no compensation.
• The 2001 Salary Survey results
• The 2000 Salary Survey results
• The 1999 Salary Survey results

N.B. Surveys before 1999 were unscientific polls, not statistically valid surveys.

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